The TempestBroadview Press, 09.02.2021 - 228 Seiten The world that William Shakespeare creates in The Tempest has many features that make it recognizably like our own. There are bad, self-seeking people; brothers fall out with brothers; people who have power are reluctant to give it up; people fall in love; children love their fathers but want to break free. But there is also a fairy-spirit, music in the very air of the island, and a powerful magician who can command the elements and even, he tells us, bring the dead back to life. Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world. This edition features interleaved materials that expand upon allusions in the play and explore elements of its stagecraft. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and inspirations, along with historical materials on exploration and colonialism. |
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... Stephano and Trinculo to take back the island. The foundation of the three plots is the extended exposition in 1.2, where Prospero tells Miranda (and us) the story of the original conspiracy that led to their exile on the island, and ...
... Stephano and Trinculo: What a thrice-double ass Was I to take this drunkard for a god And worship this dull fool! (5.1.299–301, tLn 2292–94) The coupling of human and animal qualities in a single character is usually a recipe for making ...
... Stephano puts into play Aristotelian ideas about “natural slavery,” the notion that some humans were simply unfit for self-rule and so needed the firm hand of “natural” masters who would do them—so the argument went—a kindness by ...
... Stephano into joining a war against Prospero, and he seems to have a capacity for intellectual and moral growth as well as a love of beauty and an aptitude for poetry, all of which make him perhaps more like Prospero himself than like ...
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Inhalt
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Shakespeares Life | 45 |
Shakespeares Theater | 51 |
A Brief Chronology | 57 |
A Note on the Text | 61 |
The Tempest | 65 |
From Aristotle Politics fourth century BCE | 163 |
From Ovid Metamorphoses 8 CE | 168 |
From Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda The Second Democrate or The Just Causes of the War against the Indians 1547 | 170 |
From Bartolomé de las Casas A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 1552 | 174 |
From Michel de Montaigne Of the Cannibals 157880 | 181 |
From William Strachey A True Reportory of the Wracke 1610 | 196 |
From John Dryden and William Davenant The Tempest or The Enchanted Island 1670 | 205 |
Works Cited and Select Bibliography | 217 |